The governing body of each municipality may regulate subdivisions and land development within the municipality by enacting a subdivision and land development ordinance. Provisions regulating mobile home parks shall be set forth in separate and distinct articles of any subdivision and land development ordinance adopted pursuant to the "Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code" Act 247, as reenacted and amended, Article
V, § 501, as reenacted and amended.
The purpose, authority, and jurisdiction for land development
as a mobile home park are the same as contained in Article 1 of this
chapter.
The plan requirements and processing for a manufactured/mobile home park as a land development shall be in accordance with the requirements contained in Article
III of this chapter.
The arrangement and other design standards of streets, easements, blocks, lots, stormwater management, and erosion and sedimentation control shall be in accordance with the requirements of this chapter, except as otherwise specified in this section and/or Chapter
550, Zoning.
A. Site location and design standards:
(1) Layout of lots.
(a)
All manufactured/mobile home lots shall abut a street. Side
lots shall be laid out in rectangular blocks and shall be diagonal
to the street at an angle no greater than 30° from perpendicular.
Front and rear lot lines in rectangular blocks shall be straight and
continuous.
(b)
In cul-de-sac arrangements, the side lot lines shall be radial
to the street lines.
(c)
Corner lots for manufactured/mobile home use shall have the
manufactured/mobile home situated to permit appropriate building setback
from both streets and allow proper sight distance.
(2) Building setback lines. All mobile homes and associated accessory
structures shall be located at least 50 feet from any park property
boundary line abutting upon a public street or highway right-of-way,
25 feet from any property line, and at least 25 feet from rear park
property boundary lines.
B. Screening shall be provided in accordance with Chapter
550, Zoning, §
550-36.
C. All mobile homes shall be separated from other mobile homes by a
minimum distance of 25 feet in all directions. All covered porches,
decks, and accessory structures shall be separated from other mobile
homes, other covered porches, decks, and accessory structures by a
minimum distance of 10 feet in all directions.
D. An enclosure of compatible design and materials shall be erected
around the base of each mobile home. Such enclosure shall provide
sufficient ventilation to inhibit decay and deterioration of the structure.
E. The area of the mobile home spaces shall be improved to provide an
adequate foundation for the placement of the mobile home. The mobile
home space shall be designed so as not to heave, shift, or settle
unevenly under the weight of the mobile home and frost action, inadequate
drainage, vibration, or other forces acting on the structure.
F. Each space shall have adequate anchoring and/or tie-downs to prevent
the mobile home from being upset or shifted on the space by high winds
or earthquake.
G. Mobile home park street system.
(1) A safe and convenient vehicular access shall be provided from abutting
public streets or roads. Unless accepted by the Borough, streets within
the manufactured/mobile home park shall be privately owned.
(2) Location principles. The streets or roads in a manufactured/mobile
home park shall be located and built with regard to:
(a)
Provide for convenient access to each manufactured/mobile home
lot and other important facilities in the park.
(b)
Recognizing and preserving existing easements.
(c)
Permitting connection to existing facilities where necessary
for the proper functioning of drainage and utility systems.
(3) Circulation. The street system should provide convenient circulation
by means of minor streets and properly located collector streets.
The following standards should also be applied to manufactured/mobile
home park street systems:
(a)
Dead-end streets shall be constructed as cul-de-sac streets
in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
(b)
Interior streets shall so be laid out in a manner, which will
reduce or eliminate through use by through traffic.
(c)
The manufactured/mobile home park shall be provided with a minimum of two means of ingress and egress. Each entrance shall be provided with adequate sight distance and clear sight triangles in accordance with §
480-19 of this chapter.
(d)
Where a manufactured/mobile home park abuts or contains an existing
or proposed arterial street, the Borough Council may require marginal
access streets, reverse frontage with screen planting along the rear
property line, or such other treatment as may be necessary to afford
separation of through and local traffic.
(e)
All aspects of street and right-of-way (where applicable) design, layout, grading, construction, and surfacing shall be in accordance with the public street standards set forth in §
480-19 of this chapter.
H. Blocks. The size and shape of blocks shall be determined with regard
to:
(1) Need for convenient access, automotive and pedestrian movement.
(2) Providing desirable lot depths for interior walkways and easements
for utilities to be located within the block.
(3) Providing desirable lot depths for interior walkways and easements
for utilities to be located within the block.
(4) Pedestrian paths should be designed within blocks to permit convenient
access to other areas of the manufactured/mobile home park.
I. Sidewalks. As mobile home parks constitute residential developments,
sidewalks shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of
Section 409 of this chapter to assist in the safe and convenient circulation
of pedestrian traffic. For all such required sidewalks, the sidewalk
shall have a width of five feet, and shall be separated from the street
by a grass strip having a width of four feet.
J. Easements. Easements shall be provided for all utilities not located in a street and for well-defined watercourses as required by §
480-31 of this chapter.
K. Mailboxes. The owner shall provide and maintain a central location(s)
for mailboxes for persons living within the park.
L. Off-street parking requirements:
(1) Each mobile home/manufactured home shall have paved off-street parking
areas. Parking shall be provided at the rate of at least two vehicular
parking spaces for each mobile home/manufactured home lot.
(2) In addition to the above, visitor parking shall be provided at the rate of one parking space per mobile home unit. Visitor parking shall be provided within the same parcel as the mobile home park, and shall be arranged, constructed, and served by access drives in accordance with the requirements of §
480-19.
(3) Each off-street parking space shall be of a size and arrangement consistent with the requirements of Chapter
550, Zoning, Article
IX.